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This week in history: Pearl Harbor antecedents, the attack, consequences
December 5, 2016“I grew up behind U.S. barbed wire fences,” recalls one survivor, the well known actor George Takei.
Read moreFor Southern slave masters, preserving bondage was a global cause
December 2, 2016Matthew Karp’s book, This Vast Southern Empire, shows that the effort to preserve slavery was not just a national, but rather an international affair.
Read moreToday in history: Abolitionist John Brown was hanged
December 2, 2016Brown led the attack on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry in an attempt to spark a slave uprising.
Read moreThis week in history: Worldwide Maize Day
November 22, 2016Maize Day is celebrated on the day after Thanksgiving and falls within Native American Heritage Month.
Read moreThey shall not pass: Fighting fascism in 1930s Britain
November 18, 2016"My dad told me about Oxford’s anti-fascist students, many of them members of the Communist Party of Great Britain."
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